Foot plow or cultivator



A. S. BETHUNE. FOOT PLOW 0R GUL'I'IVATOR.

No. 585,303. Patented June'29, 1897.

(No Model) ALFRED SOLON BETHUNE, OF TALBOTTON, GEORGIA.

FOOT PLOW OR CULTIVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 585,303, dated June 29, 1897. Application filed April 3, 1897. Serial No. 630,623. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may C(J/Luurit: vening. Fig. 2 is a sectional View through Be it known that I, ALFRED SOLON BE- the ploW-beam,showing one of the standards THUNE, a citizen of the United States, residin elevation. Fig. 3 is a view of the plowing at Talbotton, in the county of Talbot and beam shown made in sectionsadjustably held 5 State of Georgia, have invented certain new to a plow-beam.

and useful Improvements in Foot Plows or Reference now being had to the details of Cultivators; andI do declare the following to the drawings by letter, A designates a plowbe a full, clear, and exact description of the beam of ordinary construction, and B desiginvention, such as will enable others skilled nates the one-piece bar-metalframe,designed [O in the art to which it appertains to make and to be securely held to the beam and to hold use the same, reference being had to the acthe cultivator-teeth orplow-shovel. This bar companying drawings, and to the letters of is bent upon itself at its longitudinal center, reference marked thereon, which form a part I at which location it is securely bolted, as seen of this specification. I at b, to the plow-beam. The section of the 15 This invention relates to certain new and said bar is then bent into acompound curve, useful improvements in plow or cultivator atthence bent upon itself at B, forming socktachments, and especially to an adjustable ets B in which the cultivator-teeth or plowfoot-plow for attachment to the shovel of a shovel may be adjustably held. Each porplow or cultivat0rteeth and it consists, preftion of the said bar is then bent inwardly and 20 erably, of a single piece of bar metal, which then in parallel planes, between which pari is bent so as to form sockets in which the 0111- allel portions the said plow-beam is designed tivator-teeth or plow-shovel may be held, the to pass. said bar being so bent as to be thoroughly In order to adjustably hold the said ends braced when it is secured at two locations to of the bar to the plow-beam, it is my purpose 25 the plowbeam. to provide apertures 0, through which the The invention relates, further, to the probolts D may be passed to raise or lower the culvision of a foot plow or cultivator which is tivator-teeth-carrying portion of the device. adapted to be laterally adjustable, being Fig. 3 shows the foot-plow made of two secformed of separate pieces of bar metal which tions which are adj ustably clamped on oppo- 0 are held to a plow-beam and capable of versite sides of the beam, and, if desired, blocks tical as well as lateral adjustment, the two E may be interposed between the ends of the loops or sockets in the said bar being arranged foot plow, whereby the bars may be laterally either side by side or one in advance of the adjusted. other, as may be desired. From the foregoing it will be seen that a 5 To these ends and to such others as the infoot plow or cultivator constructed in accordvention may pertain the same consists, furance with my invention will be simple in conther, in the novel construction, combination, struction, embodying strength and simplicity, and adaptation of the parts, as will be hereand may be easily and quickly adjusted for inafter more fully described, and then speuse on either cultivator or plow beams in the 0 cifically defined in the appended claims. manner described.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the Having thus described my invention, what accompanying drawings, which, with the let- I claim to be new, anddesire'to secure by Letters of reference marked thereon, form a part ters Patent, isof this specification and in which drawings 1. A foot plow or cultivator, made of a 5 similar letters of reference indicate like parts single piece of bar metal, bent upon itself, to 5 throughout the several views, in whichform sockets, in which cultivator-teeth are Figure l is a perspective view of my imdesigned to be held, and means for securing proved foot plow or cultivator, showing the the foot-bar to the plow-beam, substantially two plow or cultivator carrying members aras shown and described.

50 ranged side by side, withaslight spaceinter- 2. A foot plow or cultivator made of a single piece of bar metal bent at its longitudinal center upon itself, thence bent to form a. compound. curve, and upon itself to form oultivator-teeth-earryin g sockets, thence bent upward in parallel planes and designed to be adjustably held to the plow-beam, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED SOLQN BETHUNE.

\Vitnesses:

S. B. BALDWIN, P. M. WESTON. 

